The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
DeSoto Street in Oakland.

City to implement infrastructure improvements on De Soto Street corridor

By Amanda Yu, Senior Staff Writer • April 6, 2025
The City of Pittsburgh and the University are collaborating to bring traffic safety improvements to the De Soto Street corridor in early April, including updating signage, removing crosswalks and installing warnings for pedestrians.
The Oakland Planning and Development Corp.’s June 24 meeting discussed the pending demolition of the rowhouses located at 3401-3421 Bates St. and transferral of the property to Pitt.

Community members express concerns over plans for Bates row houses

By Clare Sheedy, Staff Writer • June 30, 2021
After years of dealing with the series of boarded up and uninhabited Bates Street row houses, Oakland community members are making sure the pending owner of the parcel — Walnut Capital — has definitive plans to fix up the area.
Students walk across Forbes Avenue. (TPN File photo)

Milling, paving operations to affect Oakland traffic

By Janine Faust, Editor-in-chief • June 20, 2019
PennDOT District 11 announced in a press release Thursday that milling and paving operations on Forbes will reduce the length of the avenue running between Craft Avenue and South Craig Street to a single lane of traffic.
Pitt is trying to create a plan to make Bigelow a safer street for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists. (Photo by Isabelle Glatts | Staff Photographer)

Big changes may come to Bigelow

By Madison Hook | For The Pitt News • October 13, 2017

The City of Pittsburgh closed Bigelow Boulevard in 1996 for 29 days. Then-Mayor Tom Murphy said they felt closing Bigelow “would make for ... a more attractive campus.” The trial program didn’t...

Scalable Urban Traffic Control uses predictive traffic technology to adapt to existing traffic conditions. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Smith)

City plans to expand smart signals to Oakland

By Sarah Frumkin | For The Pitt News • September 26, 2017

With the dozens of traffic lights and congestion, driving in Oakland can be frustrating and stressful. But every so often, you can time it perfectly and breeze down Forbes or Fifth Avenue, passing...

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